parva

Galician

Etymology

With the first meaning, attested since 1807. From Latin parvus (“small; unimportant”), or from its diminutive parvulus; from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“few, small”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaɾ.βɐ]

Adjective

parva

1. feminine singular of parvo

Noun

parva f (plural parvas)

1. small meal in the morning of a working day, before or after the breakfast, traditionally accompanied by wine or augardente
   • 1807, anonymous author, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:

     é estou en que na quel dia / vos laparon todo aquelo / que non poideron vender / como quen vos toma a parva

     I have the idea that that day they slurped everything that couldn't sell, as if having a snack

2. (regional) breakfast
3. grain prepared for threshing

Related terms

• parvo

References

• “parva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “parva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “parva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Adjective

parva

1. inflection of parvus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

parvā

1. ablative feminine singular of parvus

References

• parva in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Spanish

Noun

parva f (plural parvas)

1. unthreshed grain
2. pile, heap

Adjective

parva f

1. feminine singular of parvo

Further reading

• “parvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014